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Spanish Police Close Investigation into Deaths of 52-year-old RCCG Pastor who Died Alongside Two of His Children on Christmas

Spanish police probing the deaths of a Nigerian pastor and his two children in a pool at a resort on the Costa Del Sol have closed the investigation.

Gabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort, nine, and his son Praise-Emmanuel, 16, drowned on Christmas Eve at the Club La Costa World in Fuengirola.

A police spokesman described it as a freak accident and put their deaths down to a lack of swimming ability.

But Gabriel Diya’s wife, Olubunmi, wants the investigation to continue and is ‘not satisfied’ their deaths were a ‘simple accident’.

She previously said in a statement all three victims could swim and she could seek further investigations, her lawyer has said.

Mrs. Diya, from Charlton, south east London, also claimed ‘something was wrong’ with the Spanish hotel pool after her little girl’s swim cap was found in the pool pump by police divers.

But today Spanish police handed the conclusions of their initial report to a magistrate and the findings will later be made public, according to the BBC RADIO.

Javier Toro, a lawyer acting for Mrs. Diya, said different engineers could be brought in for a ‘parallel investigation’ after police said their own findings point to the incident being a ‘tragic accident’.

Hotel operator CLC World Resorts and Hotels has said Mrs. Diya’s claims are ‘directly at wrong with the findings of the police report’.

In a statement, it stressed police findings made it ‘clear that their exhaustive investigations have confirmed the pool was working normally and there was no malfunction of any kind’.

An English translation of a Guardia Civil statement, released by the hotel operator yesterday, stated that tests had found ‘no irregularity’ in the pool’s system.

It said investigations indicated the accident was ’caused by the lack of expertise of the victims when swimming’.

But Mr. Toro was quoted by the BBC RADIO saying: ‘It’s very rare for three people to die in the center of a swimming pool – especially in the case of a tall, hefty man.

‘Something must have happened apart from a simple error or simple accident.’

He said the family is ‘not satisfied with the interpretation of it being a simple accident’.

‘Clearly the death of three people at the same time in a pool makes it evident that something very strange happened.

Mrs. Diya, 49 years, and younger daughter Favour Diya, 14 years, were also on the holiday but were unharmed.

The heartbroken Mrs. Diya has said her loved ones, who were reportedly on holiday with another unharmed daughter, were not left unattended and were somehow ‘dragged into the middle’ of the pool.

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